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More Quotes by Florence Nightingale
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.
The most important practical lesson than can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe.
I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse.
The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.
Nursing is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.
The 'kingdom of heaven is within,' indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.
I never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
Starting a job and working hard is how to be successful.
If I could give you information of my life it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do in His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing. I have worked hard, very hard, that is all; and I have never refused God anything.
